Here is the release from Drake on Vilsack’s newest job, and the essentials below:
“Along with Neil Hamilton, Drake’s Dwight D. Opperman distinguished professor of law, Vilsack will teach a May interim course focusing on legal issues relating to rural development and renewable energy. The course will consider policies being proposed for the 2007 Farm Bill as well as current state and USDA rural development programs.
Vilsack will give the keynote address at Drake Law School’s Supreme Court Celebration on Saturday, March 10. He will also convene a major symposium on risk and responsibility in the 21st century this spring and present a public lecture next fall.”
I had the opportunity to meet Professor Hamilton at a fundraising event last spring and he’s a very wonderful man. He helped create the agricultural law program here at Drake which has become one of the biggest and critical programs in the Drake Law School, along with our constitutional law center, which is one of only a few in the country, led by Professor Mark Kende.
The course and symposium offered by Gov. Vilsack and Professor Hamilton should be quite interesting, at least for law students. It also allows Gov. Vilsack to indulge in his wonkish tendencies and delve deep into policy, which he enjoys doing. It is times like these when I almost wish I was a law student. And then I remember the LSATs, the three years of hell, and the stigma of being a lawyer. I’ll stick to being a blogger.
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